Mass Confusion - Anonymous employee LinkedIn Employee Review

3.0
9 Jan 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pays well above salaries at many other places in the valley. Great benefits. Nice people to work with. Somewhat open culture.

Cons

Competition within the company can foster innovation, but it has been taken overboard. There are tens of overlapping projects, few of which are maintained, all of which were originally designed to replace all the others, and yet none of which can be removed or replaced. The IT team largely lacks effective leadership, and has a three-month horizon (anything that will take longer than three months is automatically squashed as being impractical, will never get done, etc.). There is no overall view of goals, or where things are ultimately headed, other than "break things, get stuff done, and have fun."

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